You Control: Fonts for Mac

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Developer’s Description

By You Software

Create a WYSIWYG font menu that displays fonts in their own typeface and groups them into families.

Built upon the award-winning You Control custom menu utility, You Control: Fonts allows you to create a custom font menu that not only displays the fonts in their own typeface, but also groups your fonts by family, so your font menus are more streamlined making it easier to find your fonts. With You Control: Fonts, you get a single font menu that is consistent across all of your favorite applications. Rather than modifying the font menu that belongs to an application, the You Control: Fonts menu resides in the Mac OS X menu bar next to your default system menu items (like the Airport monitor for example). The You Control: Fonts menu will not only display the fonts in their own typeface, but will also give you a waterfall style preview of each of your fonts. You choose the text, the size and how many lines to display. Supports popular applications including:

Adobe Illustrator CS2
Adobe InDesign CS2
QuarkXPress 7.0
Macromedia Freehand MX
Macromedia Flash MX
Macromedia Fireworks MX
Microsoft Word 2004
Microsoft Excel 2004
Microsoft PowerPoint 2004
Apple Keynote 3.0
Apple Pages 2.0
Apple Mail
TextEdit
Standard Cocoa applications that use the Font Panel

You Control: Fonts for Mac

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GENERAL

Release: July 21, 2008

Latest update: August 8, 2010

Version: 1.3.1

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Mac

Operating System

Mac OS X 10.5
Mac OS X 10.4
Mac OS X

Additional Requirements: None

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Total Downloads: 1,055

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4.2/5

13 User Votes

Still using on OSX Mavericks in 2016
maeric--2008!June 6, 2016
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I have this discontinued app installed on Mavericks because all my fonts are available in one place to view in wysiwyg. I use YCF as a viewing portal even if it no longer selects the fonts in other apps. Much better than Adobe's tiny font previews.
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It doesn't select the fonts in apps like it once did but still views installed fonts in wysiwyg. It is abandonware.
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I know it's a beta
epcNovember 24, 2006
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />But it's still pretty bad. I tried it with Notebook, and it's still incompatible. I quit YCFb2, and then decided to give it a try with Mellel. I had to Force Quit YCFb2 twice. The second time was trickier since it kept disappearing from Activity Monitor. Now YCFb2 won't launch properly, so I'll pass on testing it with Mellel. I just used Application Wizard to quit the You Control Fonts Engine. One consolation star since the Menu did display my fonts properly once. I really want to like this program, as well as You Control. After all, I already purchased them. Unfortunately those purchases were a waste of money and time.
It works pretty well
WhiteDogJanuary 5, 2005
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />FontSight only works with Cocoa apps, not with Photoshop and Quark. In this and some other respects You Control: Fonts is superior. It doesn't change some fonts in Photoshop as it should, but just having a WYSIWYG font menu there is a big improvement. Why you get native support for WYSIWYG fonts in Adobe Illustrator but not in Photoshop or InDesign is a puzzle to me. And, since I use InDesign more than Quark, I tested YCF in InDesign and found it works there, too, even though InDesign isn't listed as a supported app. If it continues to perform reasonably well during the trial period I will not hesitate to pay for it.
This company had potential, but...
gnunneryOctober 25, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />A one-trick-pony that doesn't perform the trick too well. It seems more apps are not supported than are. Don't bother contacting them for support. They do not reply. Ever!
Seriously Amazing
bhbblissJuly 10, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I just bought You Control:Fonts - this kicks butt. I love You Control, but with this new product You Control:Fonts - it completes the package. This company is going places. I recommend this product to everyone. If you buy it before July 31, 2004 (I think) and you use coupon code YOUSOFTWARE it's only like 9.95. It's a steal.
Very good indeed
mail2July 10, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I have just downloaded You Control :Fonts and wouid like to congratulate You Software. I am using it on a 17" Powerbook with Panther and Suitcase X1. To use Word 2004 and not to have to cope with an endless scrolling jumble of fonts is a revelation. It would be nice if the new menu could either eliminate or replace the application font menu but I'm sure others have already thought of this.
Seems pretty good to me
FoulenoughJuly 9, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />It's great to see something that provides the same sort of facility as Menufonts did for OS 9 - something I've missed very much in OS X. I've tried it with MS Word - so it does support Carbon applications - and Indesign. It works well and I've not found any conflicts with it yet. It would be nice if it could replace the font menu of the application it's being used with rather than setting up it's own menu on the right hand side of the screen, but hopefully this is the sort of improvement that will come with later upgrades. Can't remember how much Menufonts cost, but I have a feeling that it was about the same price as this, so I don't think $20 is unreasonable.
Terrific
zooms_dotmacJuly 9, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I am not a computer whiz, so wondered if I would be able to make this program work with my other You Software program, YouControl. It was so easy and so flawless that even I was left in awe. And the program itself is fabulous. I used it with Microsoft Word yesterday and it worked like a charm. I love the You Software products because you don't have to be tech expert to figure out how to use them. When I did have two questions (one technical, one about registration), I got responses to both within the day. Terrific software, terrific support. Can't wait to see what they think of next!
Very nice utility. Well worth it.
fontman--2008July 8, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I downloaded this today and used it successfully with Photoshop CS and more importantly for me, Freehand MX & Flash MX. The Macromedia apps font menus have always frustrated me, so this is a welcome utility. Well worth $20 or $30. The You:fonts menu is much faster than fontcard and seems to be working better for me. The feature set is pretty good for a 1.0, there's room for more features (but there always is for any app), but the big features are covered here for me (WYSIWYG & family grouping & small preview and it supports the bulk of my apps - Carbon & Cocoa).